pro·pel·ler

also pro·pel·lor (prə-pĕl′ər)

A device for propelling an aircraft or boat, consisting of a spinning shaft with radiating angled blades that thrust air or water in the direction opposite the desired direction of travel.

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propeller

(prəˈpɛlə)

1. (Mechanical Engineering) a device having blades radiating from a central hub that is rotated to produce thrust to propel a ship, aircraft, etc

2. a person or thing that propels

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pro•pel•ler

(prəˈpɛl ər)

n.

1. a device having a revolving hub with radiating blades, for propelling an airplane, ship, etc.

2. a person or thing that propels.

3. the bladed rotor of a pump that drives the fluid axially.

4. a wind-driven, usu. three-bladed device that provides mechanical energy, as for driving an electric alternator in wind plants.

[1770–80]

pro·pel·ler

(prə-pĕl′ər)

A device consisting of a series of twisted blades mounted around a shaft and spun to force air or water in a specific direction and thereby move an aircraft or boat.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

propeller - a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water

propellor

airplane propeller, airscrew, prop - a propeller that rotates to push against air

vane, blade - flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

hub - the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes

mechanical device - mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles

screw propeller, screw - a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air

variable-pitch propeller - propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable

propeller

noun prop (informal), rotor, vane an aircraft with a fixed three-blade propeller

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Translations

دافِع، جِهاز دَفْع، مِرْوَحَه

lodní šroubvrtule

propelskrue

Propeller Schraube

hélice propulsor

potkuripropelli

hélice

propeller

skrúfa

lodná skrutkavrtuľa

vijak

çark pervane

推进器缧旋桨

propeller

[prəˈpeləʳ]

A. N → hélice f

B. CPD propeller shaft N (Aer) → árbol m de la hélice (Aut) → árbol m or eje m de transmisión (Naut) → eje m portahélice

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

propeller

[prəˈpɛlə^r] n [boat, plane] → hélice fpropeller shaft prop shaft n → arbre m de transmissionpropelling pencil n (British) → porte-mine m inv

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propeller

n → Propeller m; propeller blade (Aviat) → Luftschrauben-/Propellerblatt nt; (Naut) → Schraubenflügel m; propeller shaft → Antriebswelle f; (Aut) → Kardanwelle f; (Naut) → Schraubenwelle f

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propeller

[prəˈpɛləʳ] n → elica

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propel

(prəˈpel) – past tense, past participle proˈpelled – verb

to drive forward, especially mechanically. The boat is propelled by a diesel engine.

proˈpeller noun

a device, consisting of revolving blades, used to drive a ship or an aircraft.

proˈpulsion (-ˈpalʃən) noun

the process of propelling or being propelled. jet-propulsion.

proˌpelling-ˈpencil noun

a pencil consisting of a metal or plastic case containing a lead that is pushed forward by a screwing mechanism.

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Once seated within what he already considered his new possession, the black's courage began to wane and when the motor was started and the great propeller commenced to whir, he screamed to the Englishman to stop the thing and permit him to alight, but the aviator could neither hear nor understand the black above the noise of the propeller and exhaust.

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This consideration led Sir George Cayley to think only of adapting a propeller to some machine having of itself an independent power of support - in a word, to a balloon ; the idea, however, being novel, or original, with Sir George, only so far as regards the mode of its application to practice.

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I had often watched her from the hotel, and wondered how she propelled herself, for apparently she had no propeller or paddles.

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The modern steamship advances upon a still and overshadowed sea with a pulsating tremor of her frame, an occasional clang in her depths, as if she had an iron heart in her iron body; with a thudding rhythm in her progress and the regular beat of her propeller, heard afar in the night with an august and plodding sound as of the march of an inevitable future.

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Day and night the ship throbbed to the tireless pulse of the propeller, and though one day was very like another, it was apparent to Buck that the weather was steadily growing colder.

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There was thot propeller. I was after them a guid while for ut.

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"Yes, they slow daown one turn o' their blame propeller," said Dan, applying himself to Manuel's conch, "fer to keep inside the law, an' that's consolin' when we're all at the bottom.

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She was a screw propeller of eight hundred tons, a fast sailer, and the very vessel that had been sent out to the polar regions, to revictual the last expedition of Sir James Ross.

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And while he was thus occupied there came suddenly to him the vibration of machinery and the throbbing of the propeller.

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Like a bolt from a crossbow my splendid craft shot its steel prow straight at the whirring propellers of the giant above us.

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3000 to the Limit--that is to say, up to the point when the blades make the air "bell"--cut out a vacuum for themselves precisely as over-driven marine propellers used to do.

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Presently, however, there came to my ears the whirring of the propellers of a flier, and as each moment the sound grew fainter I realized that the party had proceeded toward the south without assuring themselves as to my fate.

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